Back in black: 6233 hammers up Frickley bank, April 10th 2010

On her first main line outing since being outshopped in LNWR style black (lined in maroon and straw) and since being granted a year's extension to her main line boiler 'ticket', 6233 heads the "Yorkshire Coronation" (Derby-Scarborough-Derby) tour along the old Swinton & Knottingley joint line.
The video shows the Duchess on the final half mile of the 1 in 150 climb to the summit near the closed station at Frickley between Bolton- on-Dearne and Pontefract. For once, the weather was co-operative and with the hour of the day (just before 10am) affording dramatic sidelighting, I just needed the footplate crew to be putting in an effort. They didn't disappoint.